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The Guardian Weekly – April 4, 2025 Preview
The detention of the popular Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu last month has sparked Turkey’s largest anti-government protests in years, with people gathering nightly amid violent clashes with police. But after thousands of arrests and with disagreements about how the protests should move forwards, the opposition movement is at a crossroads.
Amid concerns that Turkey may be slipping irretrievably towards full authoritarianism, Ruth Michaelson reports from Istanbul on how the detention of a popular young activist has caused particular anger among opponents of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government. Ruth also weighs up what options now lie ahead for the protest movement amid disagreements about the best way forward.
Spotlight | Myanmar, after the earthquake
With thousands now known to have been killed as a result of last Friday’s earthquake that struck near Mandalay, Rebecca Ratcliffe reports on fading hopes of finding more survivors
Environment | The power of dead seaweed
Rotting sargassum is clogging up Grenada’s beaches – but innovative technology is turning it into fuel, fertiliser and bioplastics. Natricia Duncan and Abigail McIntyre report
Feature | The rapid growth in beard transplants
Demand for beard transplant surgery is soaring – despite the dangers that lurk in unregulated clinics. Are the risks worth it? Simon Usborne investigates
Opinion | How to beat the far right
As a lonely, hate-filled kid in Sydney’s suburbs, Matthew Quinn turned to far-right ideology. Now he reveals how he helps others avoid that path
Culture | The return of FKA twigs
Despite global stardom, FKA twigs has always felt a lack of belonging. The musician opens up to Zoe Williams about f ighting censorship, crying on stage and performing for peanuts
The London Magazine – April/May 2025 Preview
THE LONDON MAGAZINE (April 2, 2025): The latest issue takes the city as its muse:
Joshua Mehigan finds poetic inspiration at a petrol station stop, on the way back from Atlantic City
Kasra Lang and Sara Ahmad explore London and its residents who are marginalised or ignored
Paul Stephenson goes to Paris and attempts to ‘exhaust a place’ à la Georges Perec
Gráinne O’Hare’s fiction takes us to Belfast, a city scarred by the effects of generational trauma
Times Literary Supplement – March 28, 2025 Preview
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (March 26, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Many Muses’ – The women who inspired Rainer Maria Rilke; The real prime minister; Elon Musk’s big wink; The occult world of Ithell Colquhoun…
Los Angeles Review Of Books – Spring 2025 Issue
LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS (March 25, 2025): The latest issue is titled Pressure, with all new essays, poetry, and short fiction zeroed in on pressure, resilience, and the break—figurative and literal.
Features
The Pool at The LINE by Maya Binyam
Dark Waters and Sorcerer by Sam Bodrojan
Nonfiction
Points of Entry: On Lebanon and broken glass by Mary Turfah
Rising from Her Verses: The poetry and politics of Julia de Burgos by Sophia Stewart
Mann Men: Exploring an oeuvre of men in crisis by Clayton Purdom
Jolted out of Our Aesthetic Skins: Mario Kart and fiction in Las Vegas by Simon Wu
Beautiful Aimlessness: The cultural footprint of Giant Robot by Oliver Wang
In Its Purest Form: Reading Lolita on its 70th anniversary by Claire Messud
Perfect Momentum: How to crash someone else’s car by Dorie Chevlen
Comic
Mafalda by Quino, translated by Frank Wynne
Fiction
The Tragedy Brotherhood by O F Cieri
The Eagle’s Nest by Devin Thomas O’Shea
Excerpt
The Heir Conditioner: from Mother Media by Hannah Zeavin
Poetry
Minister of Loneliness by Ansel Elkins
Iterations by Tracy Fuad
Moon over Brooklyn by Daniel Halpern
You by Laura Kolbe
Third Act by Tamara Nassar
Still, my brother’s flag flies by Jorrell Watkins
Art
Melvin Edwards
Tyeb Mehta
The New York Review Of Books – April 10, 2025
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS (March 20, 2025): The latest issue features Michael Gorra on the majesty of Caspar David Friedrich, Cathleen Schine on Hanif Kureishi, Wendy Doniger on letting slip the horses of war, Adam Thirlwell on Lars von Trier, Christian Caryl on denazification, Miri Rubin on Christian supremacy, Jonathan Mingle on the phosphorous shortfall, Brenda Wineapple on the history of American social movements, Geoffrey O’Brien on Fifties Hollywood, Christopher R. Browning on Trump’s antisemitism, poems by Witold Wirpsza and Laura Kolbe, and much more.
Toffler in China
The work of the eclectic American futurist exerted a profound and unanticipated influence on China’s digital transformation since the 1980s.
Lost in the Landscape
The Met’s Caspar David Friedrich exhibition offers an introduction to an artist whose work—luminous, disturbing, serene—reveals an all-encompassing physical realm.
Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature – an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, February 8–May 11, 2025
Caspar David Friedrich: Art for a New Age – an exhibition at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, December 15, 2023–April 1, 2024
The Magic of Silence: Caspar David Friedrich’s Journey Through Time by Florian Illies, translated from the German by Tony Crawford
The Rise and Fall of Warhorses
You can tell the history of a large part of the world by who had what horses when.
Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires by David Chaffetz
Literature: The Paris Review – Spring 2025
THE PARIS REVIEW (MARCH 18, 2025): The Spring 2025 issue features
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya on the Art of Fiction: “Don’t you know my life story by now? I don’t experience fear.”
Margo Jefferson on the Art of Criticism: “I’m a lousy reporter. If I’m not interested in the person—and sometimes you’re not if you’re just on assignment for a magazine—I’ll think, Well, why aren’t you interviewing me?”
Prose by Amie Barrodale, A. M. Homes, Marie NDiaye, Domenico Starnone, Miriam Toews, and Zheng Zhi.
Poetry by Abigail Dembo, Nora Fulton, Susan Howe, D. A. Powell, Nasser Rabah, Edward Salem, and Nanna Storr-Hansen.
Art by Em Kettner, Agosto Machado, and Lady Shalamar Montague; cover by Anna Weyant.
Los Angeles Review Of Books – Spring 2025
LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS (March 11, 2025): The Spring 2025 issue features…
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Features
The Pool at The LINE by Maya Binyam
Dark Waters and Sorcerer by Sam Bodrojan
Nonfiction
Points of Entry: On Lebanon and broken glass by Mary Turfah
Rising from Her Verses: The poetry and politics of Julia de Burgos by Sophia Stewart
Mann Men: Exploring an oeuvre of men in crisis by Clayton Purdom
Jolted out of Our Aesthetic Skins: Mario Kart and fiction in Las Vegas by Simon Wu
Beautiful Aimlessness: The cultural footprint of Giant Robot by Oliver Wang
In Its Purest Form: Reading Lolita on its 70th anniversary by Claire Messud
Perfect Momentum: How to crash someone else’s car by Dorie Chevlen
Comic
Mafalda by Quino, translated by Frank Wynne
Fiction
The Tragedy Brotherhood by O F Cieri
The Eagle’s Nest by Devin Thomas O’Shea
Excerpt
The Heir Conditioner: from Mother Media by Hannah Zeavin
Poetry
Minister of Loneliness by Ansel Elkins
Iterations by Tracy Fuad
Moon over Brooklyn by Daniel Halpern
You by Laura Kolbe
Third Act by Tamara Nassar
Still, my brother’s flag flies by Jorrell Watkins
The New York Times – Tuesday, February 11, 2025
White House Failed to Comply With Court Order, Judge Rules
The federal judge in Rhode Island said the Trump administration had failed to comply with his order unfreezing billions of dollars in federal grants.
Hamas Postpones Release of More Hostages ‘Until Further Notice’
Stalling the next release of hostages from the Gaza Strip, scheduled for the coming weekend, raises new challenges for the already tenuous six-week truce and chances for a lasting end to the war.
36 Hours After Russell Vought Took Over Consumer Bureau, He Shut Its Operations
The agency had been one of Wall Street’s most feared regulators, with the power to issue rules on mortgages, credit cards, student loans and other areas affecting Americans’ financial lives.
Trump’s Actions Have Created a Constitutional Crisis, Scholars Say
Law professors have long debated what the term means. But now many have concluded that the nation faces a reckoning as President Trump tests the boundaries of executive power.
The New York Times – Monday, February 10, 2025
Why Federal Courts May Be the Last Bulwark Against Trump
With a compliant Congress and mostly quiet streets, the president’s opponents are turning to the judicial branch with a flurry of legal actions. But can the courts keep up?
Trump Will Impose Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum on Monday
The president said he planned sweeping tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports on Monday and would take other action to even out tariff rates with the rest of the world later this week.
As Trump and Musk Upend Washington, Congressional Phones Can’t Keep Up
In the three weeks since President Trump took office and gave Elon Musk free rein inside the federal government, millions of calls have poured in to members of Congress, jamming the system.
For Stunned Federal Workers, Sleeplessness, Anger and Tears
One thing lost in the Trump administration’s war on the federal bureaucracy is the collective voice of the employees. But some have begun to speak out.
